<article lang="&language;" id="print">
<title
>print</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Kurt.Pfeifle; &Kurt.Pfeifle.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>KDE British Conversion</contrib
></othercredit
> 

</authorgroup>

<date
>2002-06-23</date>
<releaseinfo
>1.00.00</releaseinfo>

</articleinfo>

<para
>The <acronym
>print</acronym
> KIOSlave gives quick access to browse different &kdeprint; sections via <quote
>virtual folders</quote
>. These folders provide some information about and quick access to your print subsystem.</para>

<para
><command
>print:/</command
> represents one more of those useful KIOSlaves implemented by &kde;. To access it, just type <userinput
>print:/ </userinput
> into the address field of &konqueror;. <userinput
>print:/ </userinput
> doesn't purely provide <quote
>read-only</quote
> access to your print subsystem, but it also allows you to change settings of your printers, of your print system and lets you create new printers and classes.</para>

<para
>You are asked for the Administrator or root password, if you are not allowed a view or an operation as a normal user.</para>

<para
>You can bookmark frequently used shortcuts like <command
>print:/manager</command
></para>

<para
>Valid syntax is either <userinput
>print:/[path-to-virtual-folder]</userinput
> or <userinput
>print:[path-to-virtual-folder]</userinput
></para>

<para
>Note, that some of the views and actions offered do heavily depend on the print subsystem that is installed on your box and presently activated for &kde;. Pages showing printer information display only those parts that are valid for the &kde; selected print subsystem. (So if you normally run <acronym
>CUPS</acronym
>, but switched temporarily to <quote
>Generic UNIX LPD Printing</quote
>, which is possible, you will see less printer info, because LPD is not capable of using the same amount of print settings as are possible in CUPS).</para>

<para
>Valid syntax to access different virtual folders and a short explanation of what they represent:</para>

<variablelist>
<title
>Some examples</title>

<varlistentry>
<term
><userinput
>print:/ </userinput
> (&ie; the root of print-kioslave)</term>
<listitem>
<para
>virtual root for browsing your print subsystem. It displays subfolders <quote
>classes</quote
>, <quote
>printers</quote
>, <quote
>manager</quote
>, and <quote
>specials</quote
></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
><userinput
>print:/classes</userinput
> or <userinput
>print:classes </userinput
> </term
> <listitem>
<para
>view your printer classes (supported by and useful for CUPS only) </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>


<varlistentry>
<term
><userinput
>print:/classes/class_name </userinput
> or <userinput
>print:classes/class_name </userinput
> </term
> <listitem>
<para
>view all members of the named printer class (supported by and useful only for CUPS) </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>


<varlistentry>
<term
><userinput
>print:/printers </userinput
> or <userinput
>print:printers </userinput
></term>
<listitem>
<para
>lists all your printers. Clicking on a printer name shows more info about that printer. </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
><userinput
>print:/printers/printer_name </userinput
> or <userinput
>print:printers/printer_name </userinput
> </term>
<listitem>
<para
>displays useful info about the named printer </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
><userinput
>print:/manager </userinput
> or <userinput
>print:manager </userinput
> </term
> <listitem>
<para
>opens a page very similar to the &kdeprint; Manager module inside the &kde; Control Centre. Switch to a different printing system here or do every other administrative task. </para>
<para
>This is the most important of access points to your printing system. </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
><userinput
>print:/specials </userinput
> or <userinput
>print:specials </userinput
> </term
><listitem>
<para
>lists all presently available <quote
>special printers</quote
>: Likely you'll see:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
        <para
>The two that let you save a printfile to disk, in &PostScript; or <acronym
>PDF</acronym
> format.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
        <para
>One that sends it as a <acronym
>PDF</acronym
> attachment via &kmail;.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
        <para
>And last, send it via fax, if you have one of the supported fax backends active, <application
>Hylafax</application
> or <application
>efax</application
>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

<tip
><para
>You can also put <command
>print:/manager</command
> or similar as the command in the <quote
>Quick Command</quote
> utility (started via <keycombo action="simul"
>&Alt;<keycap
>F2</keycap
></keycombo
>)</para
></tip>

<para
>You can learn more about printing and &kdeprint;'s powerful abilities by reading the <ulink url="help:/kdeprint/index.html"
>&kdeprint; Handbook locally</ulink
> or at the <ulink url="http://printing.kde.org/"
>&kdeprint; Website</ulink
> where there are documents online (<acronym
>HTML</acronym
> and <acronym
>PDF</acronym
>),containing <ulink url="http://printing.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/"
>Tutorials</ulink
>, as well as <ulink url="http://printing.kde.org/faq/"
>FAQs</ulink
> and Tips and Tricks related to printing in general.</para>

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